The Idiot | |
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Opera by Mieczysław Weinberg | |
Language | Russian |
Based on | The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Premiere | 9 May 2013 |
The Idiot (Russian: Идиот, romanized: Idiot; Op.144, 1985), is a Russian-language opera by Mieczysław Weinberg after Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1869 novel of the same name.[1] The piece was given its world premiere at the National Theatre Mannheim, on 9 May 2013, conducted by Thomas Sanderling, followed by a recording on Pan Classics.